Surprised there isn't a topic on this yet. Has anyone else seen it? During my California trip, one of the girls I went with was reading through the first two books and talking about how amazing they were. I knew the movie was coming so I went to the midnight showing with her last week. I was pretty blown away by it. I was exhausted and usually have a hard time mentally staying with a movie that late when I'm that tired, but I was totally into it from beginning to end. The pacing, story, characters, acting, etc. was great to me. Admittedly I don't dislike a lot of movies, but this was an exceptional one to me. One of the best I've seen in a few years. I've started reading the book today, so we'll see what I think of the movie after I finish the book, but as of now, I loved it.

My girlfriend was utterly disgusted with almost the entire movie. We went to see it the other night,I thought it was good because I didn't know anything about it. She said that the character development was downright crap compared to the book and made that Pitta guy look like a pansy. She also said there was some important stuff they left out and that the final scene isn't really what happened ( probably to keep the pg-13 rating). -WKL-

I found the movie was absolutely fantastic. I didn't know anything about The Hunger Games other than the basic premise (Roman Empire-themed totalitarian government, Battle Royale-styled bread and circuses, that kind of thing) and I figured it'd be a fun action movie.

Then they spent a lot of time developing the characters and environment, which I didn't expect, but I absolutely love the fact that they did it. ...so, I didn't expect that level of development, and I didn't expect to start crying at that one scene...

Everyone I know who's read the books says it's an excellent book-to-screen transition. Given that, once I have time, I'm going to have to read the entire trilogy -- probably by the time the next film comes out.

BTW I wish I'd known about Seneca's Beard before watching. I just shaved my beard the morning that me and my sister went to see it, and I could've pulled off having that same style (and clothes) for at least a day. KF

I've never herd of the book or the movie, apparently I live in a cave. I Just started seeing the name pop up here and there with the logo, but never got around to looking it up. I've read a few things about it now, still don't know what its about just that its similar to battle royal in away? I'm thinking about watching it but not in the theater.